.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 309 128
Rank change year-on-year +71 -181 +34
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 676 389 1,980
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.81% 0.98% 2.07%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.68% 4.98% 10.74%
Number of salaries quoted 650 325 1,825
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,727
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £105,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,806 7,807 18,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 10.50% 19.58% 19.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,729 5,262 14,843
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +12.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £66,318 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.99% +10.53% -11.11%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 21 June 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 21 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +73 156 £55,000 +10.00% 43
North of England +12 151 £55,000 -8.33% 45
Midlands +39 101 £55,000 -8.33% 21
East of England +60 93 £65,000 +18.18% 20
London -73 92 £85,000 +4.62% 52
South West -8 79 £52,500 - 10
North West +18 75 £55,000 -8.33% 23
West Midlands +5 52 £55,000 -8.33% 12
North East -5 52 £65,000 +33.33% 13
East Midlands +12 49 £55,000 +4.76% 9
Yorkshire -43 24 £55,000 -8.33% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (3.11%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.33%) IIS
3 5 (0.74%) CMS
4 3 (0.44%) Confluence
5 2 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.30%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.15%) DNN
6 1 (0.15%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.15%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Immediacy CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Kentico
6 1 (0.15%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.30%) Magento
1 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 512 (75.74%) Azure
2 162 (23.96%) Azure DevOps
3 104 (15.38%) AWS
3 104 (15.38%) GitHub
4 97 (14.35%) Azure AI
5 91 (13.46%) GitHub Copilot
6 51 (7.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 51 (7.54%) Azure Logic Apps
7 45 (6.66%) SaaS
8 42 (6.21%) Power Platform
9 36 (5.33%) Serverless
10 27 (3.99%) Azure Monitor
11 26 (3.85%) Power Automate
11 26 (3.85%) PowerApps
12 24 (3.55%) Azure Functions
13 22 (3.25%) Azure Data Factory
13 22 (3.25%) Azure Service Bus
14 21 (3.11%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (2.81%) Adobe Creative Cloud
15 19 (2.81%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 38 (5.62%) Internet
2 7 (1.04%) Hyperconnected
3 3 (0.44%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.30%) Firewall
5 1 (0.15%) AMQP
5 1 (0.15%) HTTP
5 1 (0.15%) Modbus
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) SSL
5 1 (0.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (48.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 262 (38.76%) MongoDB
3 148 (21.89%) SQL Server
4 102 (15.09%) Elasticsearch
5 35 (5.18%) Power BI
6 13 (1.92%) MySQL
6 13 (1.92%) NoSQL
7 8 (1.18%) Redis
8 7 (1.04%) NonStop SQL
8 7 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.04%) Relational Database
9 6 (0.89%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (0.74%) GIS
11 3 (0.44%) Geospatial Data
11 3 (0.44%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.15%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.15%) Data Warehouse
13 1 (0.15%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 33 (4.88%) Git
2 11 (1.63%) JIRA
3 7 (1.04%) GitLab
4 6 (0.89%) Visual Studio
5 5 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.44%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.44%) MSI
6 3 (0.44%) NUnit
6 3 (0.44%) Vite
7 2 (0.30%) Claude Code
7 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.30%) webpack
8 1 (0.15%) MSTest
8 1 (0.15%) Postman
8 1 (0.15%) Selenium
8 1 (0.15%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 95 (14.05%) Finance
2 51 (7.54%) Social Skills
3 38 (5.62%) Advertising
4 37 (5.47%) Games
5 28 (4.14%) Marketing
6 25 (3.70%) Retail
7 19 (2.81%) Banking
8 12 (1.78%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (1.48%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.33%) Automotive
10 9 (1.33%) Law
11 8 (1.18%) Front Office
12 7 (1.04%) Legal
13 6 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (0.89%) Music Industry
13 6 (0.89%) Public Sector
14 5 (0.74%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.59%) Back Office
15 4 (0.59%) Electronics
15 4 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 549 (81.21%) Developer
2 405 (59.91%) .NET Developer
3 108 (15.98%) Senior
4 101 (14.94%) Software Developer
5 65 (9.62%) C# Developer
6 64 (9.47%) Senior Developer
7 55 (8.14%) C# .NET Developer
8 52 (7.69%) Lead
9 47 (6.95%) Software Engineer
10 45 (6.66%) Full-Stack Developer
11 33 (4.88%) Lead Developer
12 29 (4.29%) Senior Software Developer
13 26 (3.85%) .NET Software Developer
13 26 (3.85%) .NET Software Engineer
14 23 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
15 21 (3.11%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 21 (3.11%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (2.81%) Azure Developer
16 19 (2.81%) C# Software Developer
17 17 (2.51%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 676 (100.00%) .NET
2 382 (56.51%) ASP.NET
3 319 (47.19%) ASP.NET Core
4 171 (25.30%) HTML
5 168 (24.85%) CSS
6 166 (24.56%) Entity Framework
6 166 (24.56%) React
7 154 (22.78%) Blazor
8 140 (20.71%) RESTful
9 135 (19.97%) Vue
10 133 (19.67%) AngularJS
11 128 (18.93%) ASP.NET Web API
12 116 (17.16%) .NET Framework
13 115 (17.01%) Node.js
14 97 (14.35%) ML.NET
15 79 (11.69%) LINQ
16 57 (8.43%) REST
17 40 (5.92%) JSON
18 25 (3.70%) WPF
19 21 (3.11%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 68 (10.06%) Greenfield Project
2 40 (5.92%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (2.66%) Cloud Native
4 15 (2.22%) Digital TV
4 15 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (1.92%) Hedge funds
6 13 (1.92%) iPhone
6 13 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 13 (1.92%) Sports Betting
7 12 (1.78%) Social Network
7 12 (1.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 11 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
9 8 (1.18%) BBC
9 8 (1.18%) Social Media
10 7 (1.04%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.04%) Low-Code
11 6 (0.89%) AI Agents
11 6 (0.89%) Client/Server
11 6 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.92%) Android
2 12 (1.78%) VMS
2 12 (1.78%) Windows
3 3 (0.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 412 (60.95%) Full-Stack Development
2 317 (46.89%) Agile
3 213 (31.51%) CI/CD
4 197 (29.14%) DevOps
5 153 (22.63%) Microservices
6 125 (18.49%) AI
7 117 (17.31%) Machine Learning
8 111 (16.42%) Multithreading
9 97 (14.35%) Software Engineering
10 71 (10.50%) OO
11 59 (8.73%) TDD
12 58 (8.58%) Scrum
12 58 (8.58%) SDLC
13 53 (7.84%) Analytics
13 53 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 50 (7.40%) User Experience
15 47 (6.95%) Containerisation
16 44 (6.51%) Business Intelligence
16 44 (6.51%) MVC
17 43 (6.36%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 633 (93.64%) C#
2 428 (63.31%) SQL
3 202 (29.88%) JavaScript
4 172 (25.44%) TypeScript
5 36 (5.33%) PowerShell
6 20 (2.96%) Python
7 12 (1.78%) T-SQL
8 11 (1.63%) Kusto Query Language
9 7 (1.04%) Bicep
10 5 (0.74%) Java
11 4 (0.59%) Kotlin
12 3 (0.44%) Bash
12 3 (0.44%) PHP
12 3 (0.44%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.15%) C++
13 1 (0.15%) Delphi
13 1 (0.15%) F#
13 1 (0.15%) Pascal
Qualifications
1 41 (6.07%) Degree
2 19 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (1.04%) Security Cleared
4 6 (0.89%) Azure Certification
5 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 4 (0.59%) SC Cleared
7 2 (0.30%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.70%) QA
2 15 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 4 (0.59%) WCAG
4 3 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.44%) NCSC
5 2 (0.30%) GDPR
5 2 (0.30%) ITGC
5 2 (0.30%) SLA
6 1 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 156 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 146 (21.60%) Kubernetes
2 19 (2.81%) Terraform
3 2 (0.30%) Ansible
Vendors
1 400 (59.17%) Microsoft
2 37 (5.47%) Facebook
3 31 (4.59%) Google
4 19 (2.81%) Adobe
5 15 (2.22%) YouTube
6 8 (1.18%) Apple
6 8 (1.18%) Sony
6 8 (1.18%) Yahoo!
7 6 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.59%) Workday
9 3 (0.44%) CrowdStrike
9 3 (0.44%) Splunk
10 2 (0.30%) Foundry
10 2 (0.30%) Oracle
10 2 (0.30%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.30%) Sitecore
11 1 (0.15%) Alterian
11 1 (0.15%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.15%) IBM
11 1 (0.15%) Reuters